LigaStavok.ru

About LigaStavok.ru

Almost overnight, Russia has become a major player in the international sports betting market. With prominent brands taking extra care of customers from this region, domestic bookmakers have grown both in size and influence. Even though there are many new bookies that have seemingly managed to disrupt things, big dogs like LigaStavok are still the head honchos in the country.

Established way back in 2008, LigaStavok.ru is one of Russia’s leading betting sites. They’ve carefully curated their image and offer for more than a decade. Today, we’ll review the current iteration of their project and touch on the notion of them being deserving of the title of ‘Russia’s best bookmaker.’

LigaStavok is an excellent example of how front-end developers can take existing elements and accommodate them to their own needs in an effective manner. The grass green and white color scheme isn’t a novelty by any means, but the UI makes use of both hues to create contrasts and highlight all the necessary features and sections.

Compared to other Russian betting sites, LigaStavok offers impressive loading speeds and doesn’t flood the entirety of its homepage with clutter. We also love the sporadic uses of orange fonts to highly important boxes such as Live Betting or Sign Up, which results in unique and effective branding.

The mobile apps also impressed us with their speed and clever scaling. Whilst the resemblances to the mobile and desktop browsers versions are undeniable, it’s still evident that the iOS and Android iterations of LigaStavok were a separate project. Throughout our testing process, we also determined that the app works perfectly even on older devices. Now, that’s some strong coding right there.

When it comes to payments, you’ll find that Apple Pay is available. This isn’t the case with most global bookmakers, but LigaStavok seems to be ahead of the curve. Now, we know that Apple is strict when it comes to the brands they collaborate with, so this Russian bookie must have done something to impress the Californian tech giant. Also available are Yandex Money, Rosbank, VISA, MasterCard, and several other platforms. Even though we would love to see PayPal and some other eWallets available, this is indubitably a good basis.

For some reason completely unknown to us, LigaStavok refuses to offer live chat support. Sure, the agents manning the email and phone lines are skilled, but one can’t just disregard all the benefits of live chat customer assistance. Nevertheless, this isn’t an unfixable problem, but we hope LigaStavok will consider fixing this.

Sports and Betting Odds

LigaStavok.ru offers a wide range of sporting events that users can bet on. Among the covered sports are: football, tennis, table tennis, basketball, biathlon, handball, hockey, rugby, curling, box. Betting odds at LigaStavok.ru are competitive overall. Soccer betting margin is 5.2%, tennis betting margin is 7.5%, ice hockey betting margin is 7.6%, basketball with 5.6% and so on. The overall betting margin is 6.5%. These betting margins have been calculated using odds from different events in each sport. Please note that margins may be different from a sport to another, and even from a league to other.

Betting Features

Not only is there a great slip builder tool, but you can also track select live and pre-game markets, with real-time alerts about odds changes. If this still isn’t enough for you, you will love the presence of live streams for all major events. With such a clean sitewide UI, you will have no problem finding special bets and props that fit your needs.

Security and Fairness

There is no denying that a green light from the Russian Government is more than enough to consider a site safe, but we have to commend LigaStavok for going a step further and providing an entire section about the company’s goals, growth, and accomplishments. It’s not every day that we get to see this level of transparency.